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News

Chess Week on Twitter

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Monday, 26 August 2013
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Pogonina.com offers you a selection of some of the most informative chess tweets from last week. A digest of the most important chess news in one short post:

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World Cup Semi-Final Preview

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By GM Daniel Gormally

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The World hess up, currently taking place in Tromso, has reached the semi-final stage, and is looking like Vachier-Lagrave vs the Russians.

Will Maxime be able to do an 1812 in reverse and see off the Russian horde? His win today against Caruana was very impressive, and he's clearly a very talented player- when he's on form there's a flow about his moves that makes him very difficult to resist.

Let's do a semi-final preview and hope that it's goes better than my predictions thus far- which have been fairly weak if I'm honest.

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A Taste of Things to Come: Tomashevsky vs. Andreikin

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Sunday, 25 August 2013


One hour of intense and exciting blitz action!

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Sunday Puzzle-50

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Puzzle courtesy of Barry R. Clarke, columnist for The Daily Telegraph and international puzzle expert
Check out his new book "Mathematical Puzzles and Curiosities" on Amazon


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Fantasy Fortune

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"What brings you here?" said a voice as Toddler Toby approached the red cave. There, high in a tree, sat the Wizard of the Wood. "I've come to seek my fortune," said Toby. Suddenly, a pixie, an elf, a goblin and a dwarf appeared in the cave entrance, each holding a black bag. "Then now is your chance," said the Wizard. "One of those bags holds 5000 gold coins, one has 3000, another 2000, and the fourth has none."

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Kamsky-Mamedyarov annotated by GM Naiditsch

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Sunday, 25 August 2013

By GM Arkadij Naiditsch, #1 German chess player, FIDE 2710

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We are in the 1st game of the 4th round of the World Cup. Only 16 players are left and the matches are getting more and more tense, every game is worth more and more and from time to time players tend to take more "safe" decisions. This does not count for Kamsky. In a great attacking game he managed to mate Mamedyarov, who has been playing just great chess in the last few months, winning almost everything he could.

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Kramnik-Korobov Analysis

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Saturday, 24 August 2013


Vladimir Kramnik is demonstrating his extraordinary skills of chess calculation. Don't watch if you are afraid of acquiring an inferiority complex!

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Chess Tactics

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Ovsejevitsch (2569) - Kveinys (2491), 2013
White to move
FEN: r1b2rk1/p2q4/1pN2b2/1N1p1p2/6p1/P7/1P1Q1PP1/2R1R1K1


The combination is very simple, yet elegant.

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Sweet Critique

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By WGM Irina Bulmaga

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My vacation continues in Bulgaria, where I am with my family. I missed them a lot, so I really enjoy the time we spend together.

Being away from home is generally a good thing- you make your own choices, you decide what's good for you and what's not, freedom starts to make another sense when you're on your own.

Inspite of this, it's good to return home from time to time, you get some good dose of critique, you get a point of view that only the people who really care about you and who don't mind telling you the bitter truth can say.

It's really good  to know that there's no hypocrisy in anything- it's pure human nature and real personality and character. Thanks God, I've got such an amazing family!

Here are some photos from my vacation:

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R.I.P. Vesna Rozic

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Vesna Rozic, 26, was a WIM and two-times Slovenian Women's Chess Champion

The chess community has desperately tried to help Vesna Rozic fight cancer, but, alas, the efforts were not good enough. On this unfortunate day we have to inform you that, according to one of the Slovenian news sites, Vesna has passed away.

Our deepest condolence to her relatives, friends and fans.

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World Cup Quarter-Final Preview

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This World Cup is already turning into an epic event, and due to the lack of rest days, I can see some serious fatigue kicking in at the latter stages. It's going to be a case of last man standing.

The match between Tomashevsky and Moro yesterday was quite extraordinary, the game where Toma needed to win with black to tie the match was something else. However as the commentators pointed out- Moro made a huge psychological error in going to the arbiter in the middle of the game.

Whatever the reason for doing so- perhaps he was complaining about his opponents lack of progress, or merely asking whether or not he could claim the 50 move rule during a blitz game, who knows, this showed weakness to his opponent and he was duly punished.

Anyway here is my preview of the quarter finals:

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